Senior Cyber Fraud Analyst

Northampton, East Midlands, United Kingdom

Barclays Bank PLC

Posted today

Join Barclays as a Senior Cyber Fraud Analyst, where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. In this role, you will be an integral part of our Cyber Fraud Fusion Center, delivering scalable CFFC services to disrupt and prevent upstream economic crime.

To be successful as a Senior Cyber Fraud Analyst, you will need the following:

• Experience working with industry-leading digital identity, device, and behavioural profiling technologies.
• Create & manage fraud rules, models, and other controls to optimize fraud strategies and policies for pre-payment fraud detection. Knowledge of rule creation within ThreatMetrix, BioCatch, FeatureSpace, Falcon is preferred.
• Engage and interact with vendors/internal fraud technology teams to assess and manage new/existing fraud detection tools.
• Ability to enrich, transform and analyse large structured and unstructured datasets including but not limited to internal and external intelligence, fraud, and business data in support of cybercrime root cause analysis.
• Knowledge of malicious attack vectors used by cyber fraud adversaries to target the financial sector including but not limited to device and behavioural profiling, location manipulation, identity fraud and account takeover.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Escalate identified risks which may result in unacceptable fraud controls and losses, utilizing data visualization.
• Supervisory and mentorship experience, delegating responsibilities within financial services.
• Partner closely with governance and control teams to ensure proper documentation, risk ratings and controls in place for all rule and model executions.
• Perform data analysis to identify areas of potential fraud risk and/or potential opportunity to improve fraud policies, strategies, controls and customer experience through SAS/SQL/Big data programming and statistical computing.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in the role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

The successful candidate will be based in Knutsford or Northampton.

Purpose of the role

To develop, implement and maintain solutions that support the safeguarding of the bank's systems and sensitive information.

Accountabilities

• Provision of subject matter expertise on security systems and engineering patterns.
• Development and implementation of protocols, algorithms, and software applications to protect sensitive data and systems.
• Management and protection of secrets, ensuring that they are securely generated, stored, and used.
• Execution of audits to monitor, identify and assess vulnerabilities in the bank's infrastructure/software and support the response to potential security breaches.
• Identification of advancements to support the innovation and adoption of new cryptographic technologies and techniques.
• Collaboration across the bank, including developers and security teams, to ensure that cryptographic solutions align with business objectives, security policies and regulatory requirements.
• Development/Implementation and maintenance of Identity and Access Management solutions and systems.
• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and develop new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practices (in other areas, teams, companies, etc.) to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
• Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.